The outer global of condition shapes itself to the inner international of thought, and each first-rate and ugly external situations are elements, which make for the ultimate right of the person. As the reaper of his personal harvest, guy learns both with the aid of suffering and bliss.

for your dominant trends of thought are the determining factors in your destiny.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

So You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, 'environment,' But spirit scorns it, and is free.

Men do not attract what they want, but what they are.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. That

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the di- adem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends. By the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confu- sion of thought a man descends. A man may rise to high success in the world, even to lofty attitudes in the spiritual realm, and again descend into weakness and wretchedness by allowing arrogant, selfish, and corrupt thoughts to take possession of him.

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms   in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts.

Let a man notably adjust his mind, and he may be astonished at the rapid transformation it's going to impact within the fabric situations of his life. Men believe that idea may be kept mystery, however it can not; it hastily crystallizes into habit, and addiction solidifies into condition.

You will be what you will to be; Let failure find its false content In that poor word, environment, But spirit scorns it, and is free.

if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing his every experience, even to the most trivial, everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of himself which is Understanding, Wisdom, Power. In